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AMD Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire: specs and benchmarks
Price now
126$
Games supported
84%
- Interface
- Core clock speed 850
- Max video memory
- Memory type GDDR5
- Memory clock speed 4800
- Maximum resolution
Year of release
2012
Performance
23.20
Summary
AMD started Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire sales 1 May 2012. This is GCN architecture notebook card based on 28 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers.
Power consumption is at 200 Watt.
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at
23.20%
of a leader's which is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti.
General info
Of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's architecture, market segment and release date.
| Place in performance rating | 214 | |
| Value for money | 29.22 | |
| Architecture | GCN (2011−2017) | |
| GPU code name | Wimbledon XT | |
| Market segment | Laptop | |
| Release date | 1 May 2012 (10 years ago) | |
| Price now | $126 | of 49999 (A100 SXM4) |
Value for money
Technical specs
Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's general performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2560 | of 18432 (AD102) |
| Core clock speed | 850 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 28 nm | of 4 (H100 PCIe) |
| Thermal design power (TDP) | 200 Watt | of 900 (Tesla S2050) |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Information on Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.
| Laptop size | large |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors don't have dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM.
| Memory type | GDDR5 | |
| Memory bus width | 2x 256 Bit | of 19000 (GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB) |
| Memory clock speed | 4800 MHz | of 21000 (GeForce RTX 3090 Ti) |
| Shared memory | - |
API support
APIs supported by Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 |
Benchmark performance
Non-gaming benchmark performance of Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire. Note that overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range.
Overall score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
- 3DMark Vantage Performance
- 3DMark 11 Performance GPU
3DMark Vantage Performance
3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.
Benchmark coverage: 17%
3DMark 11 Performance GPU
3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.
Benchmark coverage: 16%
Game benchmarks
Let's see how good Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.
Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:
| 900p | 132 | |
| Full HD | 102 |
Full HD
Low Preset
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 21−24 |
Full HD
Medium Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 21−24 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 21−24 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 21−24 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 21−24 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 21−24 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 21−24 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 21−24 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 21−24 | |
| Hitman 3 | 21−24 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 21−24 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 21−24 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 21−24 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 21−24 |
Full HD
High Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 21−24 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 21−24 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 21−24 | |
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 21−24 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 21−24 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 21−24 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 21−24 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 21−24 | |
| Hitman 3 | 21−24 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 21−24 | |
| Metro Exodus | 21−24 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 21−24 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 21−24 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 21−24 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 21−24 |
Full HD
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 21−24 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 21−24 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 21−24 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 21−24 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 21−24 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 21−24 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 21−24 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 21−24 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 21−24 |
1440p
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 21−24 | |
| Hitman 3 | 21−24 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 21−24 | |
| Metro Exodus | 21−24 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 21−24 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 21−24 |
1440p
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 21−24 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 21−24 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 21−24 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 21−24 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 21−24 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 21−24 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 21−24 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 21−24 |
4K
High Preset
| Call of Duty: Modern Warfare | 21−24 | |
| Hitman 3 | 21−24 | |
| Horizon Zero Dawn | 21−24 | |
| Metro Exodus | 21−24 | |
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | 21−24 | |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 21−24 | |
| The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt | 21−24 |
4K
Ultra Preset
| Assassin's Creed Odyssey | 21−24 | |
| Assassin's Creed Valhalla | 21−24 | |
| Battlefield 5 | 21−24 | |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 21−24 | |
| Far Cry 5 | 21−24 | |
| Far Cry New Dawn | 21−24 | |
| Forza Horizon 4 | 21−24 | |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | 21−24 |
Relative perfomance
Overall Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire performance compared to nearest competitors among notebook video cards.
NVIDIA equivalent
The nearest Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire's NVIDIA equivalent is GeForce GTX 1070 Max-Q, which is faster by 1% and higher by 2 positions in our rating.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire:
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with Radeon HD 7970M Crossfire according to our statistics.
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